Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan can be a very inspirational speaker when he wants to be. As he showed several times during his speech at the RNC, few in politics have the ability to convey messages in the simple yet sort of powerful way that he can.

And so, because we know that Ryan can deliver a good speech when he wants to, one can’t help but wonder why he hates the RedHawks and purposely gave them this awful pep talk on Saturday: